Ninety-three percent. That number alone means nothing, but for Fran McCaffery's Iowa Hawkeyes, it spells success for the 2013-14 season, with 93 percent of the scoring returning from last season's NIT runner-up squad...

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The first week of the abbreviated NBA season played out exactly as I expected. Young teams benefited from an offseason veteran teams apparently spent eating, napping and doing everything besides play basketball...

Devery Henderson is often the forgotten man in the New Orleans Saints deep wide receiving corps. Just ask the Green Bay Packers secondary, which yielded a 29-yard touchdown to Henderson with just over six minutes remaining in the third quarter...

LeBron James and Tim Tebow have been thrust onto the sports stage by a national media hungry for sensationalism. They have achieved enough success to warrant a permanent place among the pantheon of this generation's sports icons...

A day after the NBA draft lottery, all the buzz is about how 14-year-old Nick Gilbert made nerds cool with his hipster glasses and positive vibes helping land daddy's Cleveland Cavaliers two of the top four picks in the 2011 NBA draft...

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LeBron James and Derrick Rose are ready to give sports fans reason to rejoice in the 2011 NBA Eastern Conference finals, offering them some much-needed relief from what has been a difficult post-Super Bowl depression...

The NBA draft figures to be held under a cloud of labor uncertainty this June with the NBA owners and the player's association said to be nowhere close to reaching a new collective bargaining agreement...

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